Friday, November 7, 2014

Lesson 226

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which makes
this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I
believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I
see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or
search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought for
illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear Your
Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered
dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?"

What I read in the ACIM text this morning:

"Be vigilant only for God and for His Kingdom....

The third step, then, is a statement of what you want
to believe, and entails a willingness to relinquish everything else. The Holy
Spirit will enable you to take this step, if you follow Him. Your vigilance is
the sign that you want Him to guide you. Vigilance does require effort,
but only until you learn that effort itself is unnecessary. You have exerted
great effort to preserve what you made because it was not true. Therefore, you
must now turn your effort against it. Only this can cancel out the need for
effort, and call upon the being which you both have and are.
This recognition is wholly without effort since it is already true and needs no
protection. It is in the perfect safety of God. Therefore, inclusion is total
and creation is without limit."

I had a great 20 minutes on the elliptical and then a great 3.1 mile run outside. Then I went to work. In my inbox were 2 e-mails from 2 vice presidents thanking me for my "impact" at their meeting yesterday.

The part in the text above allowed me to go to work today with a mind set on service to my higher power, not on getting. Yesterday, at the meeting with 25 executives, I gave away an idea. It was an out-of-the-blue radical idea. But I had the courage to put send it to one of the VPs a few weeks ago and he got excited. Yesterday, I sprang it on the others and they got excited. This is exactly what ACIM means that ideas expand when given. And giving and receiving are the same.

Today as well, I had in mind that I wanted to help a colleague instead of fight with him. In wanting to collaborate, I was feeling inclusion not separation. In this way, the ego is defeated and the Spirit has been followed. The mindset of inclusion approaches the ACIM principle of "forgiveness" since one is now looking beyond this world into the reality of the oneness of creation.

This can only be a wonderful way to live. I am happy for having inner peace today.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Very inspiring. This is moving toward inner light and love - giving, learning to love. I recall earlier entries which mentioned your struggle with the powerful hate emotion. As you continue to lessen hate's influence, and increase love's, may more peace fill your heart.